Congress Stock Trades Scraper

Congress Stock Trades Scraper

The stock trades members of Congress report in their Periodic Transaction Reports, one row per trade. Each row has the member, their chamber, state and district, whose account it was, the asset and its ticker, the kind of trade, the day it was made and the day it was disclosed, the amount range, and a link to the filing it came from.

It reads the two official sources and nothing else: the House Clerk's financial disclosure site and the Senate's eFD search. There's no API key to get and no account to open.

The law on these reports

Federal law, 5 U.S.C. § 13107, makes it unlawful to obtain or use these reports for any commercial purpose other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public. It also rules out using them to set anyone's credit rating, or to ask people for money for a political, charitable or other cause. The Attorney General can sue over it, and a court can add a penalty of up to $10,000.

The Senate site asks every visitor to confirm they understand those rules before it shows a single report. This actor gives that confirmation when it opens the site for you. Whether your use is allowed is your decision to make, with a lawyer if you're unsure.

What it doesn't do

• Paper filings aren't read. Some members still file on paper, and those filings are scanned forms. Each one comes back as a single row with paperFiling set to true and a link to the scan. None of them is charged, and the trade filters can't see inside them.
• Mostly ranges, not amounts. Members report a range, such as $1,001 - $15,000, and you get it with both ends as numbers too. Now and then a member writes an exact figure instead, like $2,722.50, and then both ends are that figure.
• House filings start in 2015. The Clerk's yearly lists hold no periodic transaction reports before then. The Senate's search goes back to 2012.
• Older House filings mix up capital letters. In House filings from 2015 to 2021 the text itself reads "apple Inc." for Apple Inc. and "(TsLa)" for TSLA. Tickers are put back in capitals. Names are left the way the filing's text has them.
• Categories follow the filing. The Senate files most ETFs as plain Stock, so an ETF filter finds mostly House trades. A trade with no ticker (a bond, a private company, a fund inside an account) never matches a ticker filter.
• Amended trades come back twice. When a member amends a filing, the amendment repeats its trades. You get both copies, and filingStatus tells them apart.
• No prices or returns. Only what the filings say.

Input

Last days. Filings disclosed in the last few days, today included. Set it to 7 on a weekly schedule, or 2 on a daily one so a late filing isn't missed.

Disclosed from, Disclosed to. A range of disclosure dates instead, written like 2026-08-01. Leave the end empty to run up to today.

Chamber. House and Senate together, or just one.

Members. Names, whole or in part: Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Tuberville. A filing matches when the member's name contains every word you typed.

States, House districts. Two-letter states, and House seats written like CA11. An at-large seat is 00, as in AK00. A district only exists in the House, so setting one leaves the Senate out.

Traded from, Traded to. The day the trade was made, which is usually weeks before it's disclosed. Members have 30 days from being told about a trade, and never more than 45 days from the trade itself, to report it.

Tickers, Transaction types, Minimum amount, Asset types, Owners. Narrow the trades down. The minimum amount keeps trades whose range starts at or above the one you pick.

List paper filings. On unless you switch it off.

Maximum trades. 1,000 unless you change it, up to 50,000, newest filings first.

{
  "lastDays": 30,
  "chamber": "both",
  "tickers": ["NVDA", "MSFT"],
  "transactionTypes": ["purchase"],
  "minAmount": "15001",
  "maxTrades": 500
}

Output

One row per trade, newest filing first, in the order each filing lists its trades.

The run also leaves a report, RUN_REPORT, in its key-value store: how many filings each chamber listed and matched, which ones were read, trades your filters left out, and why the run stopped.

What you pay

Each trade in your dataset is one charge. Nothing else costs anything: not a paper filing, not a trade your filters leave out, not a filing that couldn't be read, not the sample row you get when no dates are set. If you set a maximum charge for the run, it stops when that's reached. The price is on the Pricing tab.

Limits

• 50,000 trades and 3,000 filings per run, newest filings first. A run that reaches either stops and says where.
• It reads one House file every half second and one Senate page a second, so a long range takes a while.
• A filing is only used after it has been checked against the list that pointed to it: the House PDF must carry the same filing number and the member's name, and a Senate page must name the member and hold as many trades as it says it has. A filing that fails is listed in the run report and not charged.

Where the data comes from

The House Clerk's financial disclosure reports (disclosures-clerk.house.gov), through its yearly list of filings, and the Senate's Electronic Financial Disclosure search (efdsearch.senate.gov). Every row links to the filing it was read from.

Questions

Can I get new trades every morning? Schedule the actor with Last days set to 2. Filings arrive through the day, so a two-day window catches the ones that came in after yesterday's run.

Why was this trade made weeks before it was disclosed? That's normal. The law gives members up to 45 days from the trade.

Why do some rows have no trade in them? Those are paper filings, marked paperFiling. Open reportUrl to see the scan.

Is a missing trade my fault or the filing's? Check the filing's own link first. If the trade is there and not in your data, RUN_REPORT shows whether that filing was read, and which filter left the trade out.